Plan D Day 28

Important safety tip. There are now three yoga poses you should not go wild for when you have a hernia. Triangle pose. (Keep it more like a square pose). Wide legged forward fold. (Gravity was not a figment of Newton’s imagination.) And, as of last night, the Dolphin Plank. If you hold it long enough you look like this:

There’s a push-me/pull-me situation with this diet/fitness program. There are different classes of mistakes. In order of severity

• You consciously and deliberately obtain food that’s no good for the process.
• You are caught without supplies.
• You succumb to social pressures and eat small amounts of the wrong stuff.

• You are feeling fine, but just can’t bear the thought of exercise.
• You are feeling fine, but you are called away to a meeting or (in today’s case) a sick child at home.
• You go to the gym or fitness class and just don’t try very hard.

How badly do you beat yourself up on this stuff? I find that if I’m too harsh with my inner voices, it seems to lead to more “cheating”. A kind of flipping the bird at yourself. Having no self-inflicted psychological penalty doesn’t seem to work either.

Where is the middle ground? My theory is that setting and resetting very near term goals (e.g. please don’t go into Urban Fare) seems more reasonable.

But who’s reasonable when dieting? A dilemma.